The reading plan, checkpoints and meetings
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A Circle's Plan tab holds the book, the checkpoints (by chapter, percent or date) and the group's progress; a checkpoint can carry a meeting time, shown in your own timezone, and being in the Discussion during the meeting window counts as attendance. Owners can make recurring schedules and author drop-ins.
The short answer
The Plan tab
Plan (also Book & plan in Manage) shows the book the Circle is reading, the checkpoints (which part of the book the Circle reaches by when: by chapter, by percent or by a date), the group progress, what is already read and what is up next. A checkpoint may have a meeting time, and the page shows it in your time.
Keep your own progress on the book up to date (Shelves and progress): it drives the spoiler gate in the Discussion (Posting in a Reading Circle) and the group's progress bar.
Meetings
A meeting is a checkpoint with a time. There is no video built in: a meeting happens in the Discussion, and Meeting now shows while the window is open. Being in the Discussion during the window counts as attendance, once per person per meeting, and attendance earns achievements (Circle Regular, Circle Host, First Light: see How achievements work).
Recurring schedules
Owners and moderators can turn a cadence into checkpoints automatically: New recurring schedule, with a name, Starts and Ends, a cadence (every so many days or weeks, or chosen weekdays), a length per step, and an optional meeting time. Archiving a schedule stops it generating and keeps every checkpoint it made. Every reader account may run ten advanced schedules across its Circles.
Author drop-ins and live sessions
A Circle can invite an author for a drop-in: the owner sets a date and time, the author accepts or declines, members submit their question for the author, and the thread stays visible after the session ends. Live sessions with video run in an author's Official Circle, on a connected provider, where the deployment has one (Official Circles).
Related
- Joining a Reading Circle: A Reading Circle is a group reading together. Circles are public (listed), unlisted (reachable by link) or private (members only); joining is instant, by request (Request sent while the owner answers) or by invitation link, sometimes with a question or two to answer first.
- Posting in a Reading Circle: The Discussion tab is the conversation; a post has a type (general, chapter chat, checkpoint, theory, character, quote, prompt, announcement, endgame) and follows the Circle's spoiler policy, which can hide posts past your recorded progress. Report and remove work as everywhere.
- Running a Reading Circle: Start a Circle from the Circles page (up to ten of your own); the Manage tab has one section per job (Details, Book and plan, Schedules, Access, Members, Appearance, Moderation, Polls, Challenges, Live). Moderation is a preset you read before applying, with the previous configuration kept so you can restore it; invite links can expire, be limited or revoked.
- Official Author Circles: An author starts an author circle around one of their books or series from the Circles page or the Studio; it shows the Official Author Circle mark once the author profile is verified. It works like any Circle with the author as owner, plus drop-ins and, where a video provider is connected, live sessions. "Author participating" marks a Circle the author is in but does not run.
- How achievements work: Achievements are illustrated marks for things you actually did here. Finishing books, turning up to Circle meetings, charting. Only the ones you have earned are shown, newest first, on your profile; each opens to say when and for what.
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